Water in the Atmosphere
Precipitation
Air Masses & Fronts
Storms
Predicting the Weather
100
The process by which water moves through the Earth & Atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
100
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
100
A huge body of air that has a similar temperature,humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is an air mass?
100
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
What is a storm?
100
Many things in the sky, such as the clouds.
What natural things helps people predict the weather?
200
The process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas caused by heat.
What is evaporation?
200
When it is heavy enough, which is caused by new layers of ice forming around it.
When will hail fall?
200
The boundary where two or more air masses meet.
What is a front?
200
A small storm often accompanied by heavy precipitation and frequent lightning and thunder.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
A scientist who studies the cases of weather and try to predict it.
What is a meteorologist?
300
The cooling of water in the atmosphere changing gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
When rain drops through the air that is less than 0 degrees celsius.
How does sleet form?
300
1.A swirling center of low air pressure. 2.High pressure centers of dry air.
1.What is a cyclone? 2.What are anticyclones?
300
A rapidly whirling funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface.
What is a tornado?
300
Lines joining places on the map that have the same atmospheric pressure.
What are isobars?
400
The largest body of water on Earth.
What is the ocean?
400
When rain travels through cold air and freezes when it touches a cold surface.
How does freezing rain form?
400
1. Over the oceans. 2. Over the land.
1.Where do maritime air masses form? 2.Where do continental air masses form?
400
A tropical cyclone that has winds that are 119 km/h or higher.
What is a hurricane?
400
Lines joining places of equal temperature.
What are isotherms?
500
Provides energy that evaporates water and heats the land.
What does the Sun do for Earth?
500
When water vapor turns into it when it is in clouds.
How can snow form?
500
1.When warm air masses take over cold ones. 2.When cold air masses go under warm air masses. 3.When a standoff happens between the two air masses. 4.When cold and cooler air trap warm air from touching the ground.
1. When do warm fronts form? 2. When do cold fronts form? 3. When do stationary fronts form? 4. When do occluded fronts form?
500
A dome of water that sweeps across the coast where hurricanes land.
What is a storm surge?
500
When a small change in weather can mean that there will be a higher chance of weather the next week.
When does the butterfly effect happen?
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